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Imagining England s Past : Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession /anglais - Couverture rigide

Owens, Susan

 
9780500024331: Imagining England s Past : Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession /anglais
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0500024332 ISBN 13 : 9780500024331
Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

Imagining England's Past, 9780500024331

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Susan Owens is an expert on British landscape art and a leading critical voice in the field. Her publications include The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History, which was Apollo magazine's 2024 Book of the Year, Imagining England's Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession, and Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape. She was curator of paintings at the V&A, and was involved in the major V&A exhibition and catalog Constable: The Making of a Master.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Imagining England’s Past takes a long look at the country’s invented histories, from the glamorous to the disturbing, from the eighth century to the present day.

Valorized, weaponized, completely made up: England has long built its sense of self on a sense of its past. What does it mean for Geoffrey of Monmouth to call forth King Arthur from the post-Roman fog; for William Morris to resurrect the skills of the medieval workshop and Julia Margaret Cameron to portray the Arthurian court using her Victorian camera; or for Yinka Shonibare to visualize a Black Victorian dandy in the final years of the twentieth century?

Told through the distinctive imaginings of successive generations, this book considers how and why national myths have come into being, the multitude of forms they have taken and what centuries of looking back might mean for the present and future. Not a history of England, but a history of those who have written, drawn and dreamed it into being, Imagining England’s Past offers a lively, erudite account of the creation and contestation of the English past.

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Éditeur
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0500024332
ISBN 13 
9780500024331
Reliure
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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